I would love to download the code, have a look at it, and compile it on my own machine. I have some C experience, but not with a project of this magnitude. For instance, I've never retrieved code from an SVN repository. I see that andrewdoull wrote an excellent guide to getting started on a Windows machine. If I install Eclipse on OSX, will the same steps work? Would other Mac programmers recommend XCode instead?

I would love to download the code, have a look at it, and compile it on my own machine. I have some C experience, but not with a project of this magnitude. For instance, I've never retrieved code from an SVN repository. I see that andrewdoull wrote an excellent guide to getting started on a Windows machine. If I install Eclipse on OSX, will the same steps work? Would other Mac programmers recommend XCode instead?

I have a Mac that I use, although I actually just use a text editor and the makefiles. I think I have built Angband.app before but I usually don't do that... I just build an angband executable and then play in a terminal (angband -mgcu) or in X11 (angband -mx11).

If I get a chance sometime soon I will try to do that again and write a guide. Pete Mack may already have something like this ready--I think he's done a lot of the Mac development in the past.

If you want basic unix instructions for getting the code, it would be something like this:

That is from memory but I'm pretty sure it's correct, I do it all the time. I really recommend having a special sandbox to install to... so you can have a stable/packaged version installed and also have your own custom set up.

Modern Angband compiles to an OSX-standard application just fine. You'll need the Angband source code, the OSX Developer Kit (available from Apple), and Terminal. Just cd into the src directory and run "make -f Makefile.osx", and it'll make Angband.app for you.